# overview
Dr. Mansour Karkoub's teaching and research interests include: Controls, Robotics, Mechatronics, Vibration Engineering, and Application of AI to mechanical engineering systems.

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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Multilayer Neural Network (mlnn) Modeling

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Hierarchical Fuzzy Sliding-mode Adaptive Control

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Hybrid Analytical/finite Element Method (hafem)

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4009 Electronics, Sensors And Digital Hardware

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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Experimental Verification of Drill String Vibration Suppression Using an Adaptive Self-Tuning Controller

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International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV)

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Drill-String Torsional Vibration Suppression Using GA Optimized Controllers

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Active, Shunted, and Passive Constrained Layer Damping for the Vibration Suppression of a Flexible Four-Bar Mechanism

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Robust control of two-link flexible manipulators using the mu-synthesis technique

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MASS BASED VIBRATION DAMPERS

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Two-magnet energy harvesting device for charging submersable sensors

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Neural-net tuned PID control of a parallel type mechanism with force feedback for virtual reality applications

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Drill-String Dynamics: Reduced-Order Models and Experimental Studies

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Towards a Modular, Customizable Robotic System for Needle-Based Image-Guided Interventions: Preliminary Designs, Implementation, and Testing

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Design and experimental analysis of new industrial vibration dampers

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Collision-Free Trajectory Tracking while Preserving Connectivity in Unicycle Multi-Agent Systems

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Numerical investigation of Linear Particle Chain impact dampers with friction

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Control of the elastodynamic vibrations of a flexible slidercrank mechanism using -synthesis

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Modeling of wave propagation in drill strings using vibration transfer matrix methods.

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Modelling and non-linear discontinuous feedback control of crane lifter systems

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Analysis of the Method of Black Box Modeling of Drill string Dynamics by Least Squares method

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Prediction of Hydroforming Characteristics using Random Neural Networks

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Design of an Edge Detection-Based Health Monitoring System for Disk Meters

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Mixed Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Tracking with Backstepping Formation Control for Multi-Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Subject to Uncertainties

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Haptic direct-drive robot control scheme in virtual reality

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H-infinity BASED ADAPTIVE FUZZY CONTROL OF A TOWER CRANE SYSTEM

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Hierarchical Variable Structure Control for the Path Following and Formation Maintenance of Multi-agent Systems

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Modelling Deformation of Hydroformed Circular Plates Using Neural Networks

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H Based Adaptive Fuzzy Control of a Tower Crane System

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Robust Control of a Car Suspension System Using Magnetorheological Dampers

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Analysis and design of haptic telerobotic system

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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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A neural network prediction model of fluid displacements in porous media

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Hierarchical Backstepping Control for Trajectory-Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Subject to Uncertainties

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Vibration Damping of a Flexible Mechanism using an Energy Approach

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Impact of Coupling Strength On Reaching Network Consensus

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Delayed Output Feedback Control for Nonlinear Systems With Two-Layer Interval Fuzzy Observers

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Trajectory Tracking Control of Unicycle Robots with Collision Avoidance and Connectivity Maintenance

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Experimental Investigation of Linear Particle Chain Impact Dampers in Free-Vibration Suppression

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Colocated and noncolocated control design via mu-synthesis for flexible manipulators

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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H-infinity fuzzy adaptive tracking control design for nonlinear systems with output delays

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Robust Control of an Electrostatic Microelectromechanical Actuator

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Modelling and mu-synthesis control of flexible manipulators

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Anti-sway tracking control of tower cranes with delayed uncertainty using a robust adaptive fuzzy control

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Design and application of a low cost visual tracking system

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Application of passive and active constrained-layer damping for the vibration suppression of a flexible four-bar mechanism

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SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

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Supervised Coverage Control with Guaranteed Collision Avoidance and Proximity Maintenance

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Wave propagation modeling of fluid-filled pipes using hybrid analytical/two-dimensional finite element method

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Robust mu-synthesis controllers for suppressing stick-slip induced vibrations in oil well drill strings

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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A NOVEL IMPACT DAMPER IN FREE VIBRATION OF STRUCTURES

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Vibration Damping of a Flexible Mechanism using an Energy Approach

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Robust mu-Synthesis Control of the Lateral Web Shifting with Time Delay

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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BI-DIRECTIONAL STRUCTURE VIBRATION SUPPRESSION USING LPC IMPACT DAMPERS

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DRILL STRING DYNAMICS: REDUCED-ORDER MODELS

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Non-Contact Sensing System for Telerobotic Applications

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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-Synthesis robust control of double-effect distillation columns

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Analyses of the robustness of the mathematical model with the laboratory prototype of the drilling process during simulation and vibration control experiments

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Robust Control Schemes for an Overhead Crane

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Design and analysis of a 2-D haptic interface device in virtual reality

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ROBUST ANTI-SWING ADAPTIVE FUZZY TRACKING CONTROL FOR TOWER CRANE SYSTEMS WITH BOTH DEAD-ZONE BAND AND TIME-DELAYS UNCERTAINTIES

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Robust Tracking Control of MIMO Underactuated Nonlinear Systems With Dead-Zone Band and Delayed Uncertainty Using an Adaptive Fuzzy Control

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Modelling and index analysis of a Delta-type mechanism

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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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Modelling and control of two robotic manipulators handling a constrained object

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Robust Control of a Car Suspension System Using Magnetorheological Dampers

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Suppression of Lateral and Torsional Stick-Slip Vibrations of Drillstrings With Impact and Torsional Dampers

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A generalised approach to point-to-point motion of multi-DOF parallel manipulators illustrated with TMPM

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Modeling of wave propagation in drill strings using acoustic transfer matrix method

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Design and control of a two-dimensional telerobotic system with a haptic interface

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Hierarchical inversion-based output tracking control for uncertain autonomous underwater vehicles using extended Kalman filter

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DELAYED OUTPUT FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR NONLINEAR SYSTEMS WITH FUZZY OBSERVERS

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Modelling and non-linear feedback stabilization of a two-wheel vehicle

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Comparative Study of Buoy-Actuated Energy-Harvesting Devices for Submersible Sensors

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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An Improved Dipole Model of 3-D Magnetic Flux Leakage

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Modeling of wave propagation in drill strings using acoustic transfer matrix method

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Design of a Test Rig for Vibration Control of Oil Platforms Using Magneto-Rheological Dampers

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Design of an Interactive Pipeline Inspection VR System

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Application of parameter estimation techniques to analyze the kinetics of liquid crystalline copolyesters

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Identification of a Box-Jenkins model for rotary drilling laboratory prototype

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Anti-sway tracking control of tower cranes with delayed uncertainty using a robust adaptive fuzzy control

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A Comparative Study of Mass Based Vibration Dampers

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Computation of large strains associated with plastic instability of in-plane loaded plates

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Towards a Modular, Customizable Robotic System for Needle-Based Image-Guided Interventions: Preliminary Designs, Implementation, and Testing

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Control of Stick-slip Oscillations in Oil Well Drill Strings Using the Back-stepping Technique

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International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV)

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Optimal Control of Suspension Systems Using Smart Actuators

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A NOVEL AUTONOMOUS PIPELINE SCANNING ROBOT

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Approximating a robot inverse kinematics solution using fuzzy logic tuned by genetic algorithms

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Modelling and energy based nonlinear control of crane lifters

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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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Hierarchical Decentralized Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for the Path-Tracking of Differential Driven Mobile Robots

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Modelling and stabilization of a series of self-balancing two-wheel vehicles

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Energy harvesting devices for subsea sensors

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Preliminary Evaluation of Robotic Transrectal Biopsy System on an Interventional Planning Software

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Design and control of a haptic interactive motion simulator for virtual entertainment systems

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H tracking adaptive fuzzy integral sliding mode control for a train of self-balancing vehicles

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Humanoid Robot's Visual Imitation of 3-D Motion of a Human Subject Using Neural-Network-Based Inverse Kinematics

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Development of a Telerobotic System to Assist the Physically Challenged Using Non-Contact Vision-Based Sensing and Command

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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)

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SHOCK VIBRATION CONTROL USING A NOVEL IMPACT DAMPER

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Transformative learning experiences in mechanical engineering through mechatronics: From high school to college

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Design of a wireless remote monitoring and object tracking robot

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Event Triggered Control of Stochastic Systems with Multiplicative Noises

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Nonlinearity and spectrum analysis of drill strings with component mass unbalance

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Modeling climate parameters for renewable energy applications in the UAE using neural networks

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Trajectory tracking for uncertainty time delayed-state self-balancing train vehicles using observer-based adaptive fuzzy control

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Modeling Climate Parameters for Renewable Energy Applications in the UAE using Neural Networks

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Hierarchical Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Adaptive Control for the Trajectory Tracking of Differential-Driven Mobile Robots

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Predicting axial piston pump performance using neural networks

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Modeling and Robust Control of Vibrations in a Flexible Four-Bar Mechanism

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Design and control of a two-dimensional telerobotic system with a haptic interface (vol 217, pg 169, 2003)

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Active damping of the elastodynamic vibrations of a flexible slider-crank mechanism using an energy approach

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PASSIVE MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM STRUCTURAL CONTROL USING LPC IMPACT DAMPERS

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Drill Bit Whirl Mitigation Analysis  An Under Actuated System Perspective

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Visual people counting using gender features and LRU updating scheme

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AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL-NETWORK FOR THE PREDICTION OF IMMISCIBLE FLOOD PERFORMANCE

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Distributed Newton and Quasi-Newton methods for formation control of autonomous vehicles

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Robust tracking observer-based adaptive fuzzy control design for uncertain nonlinear MIMO systems with time delayed states

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Robust control of a car suspension system using magnetorheological dampers

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Design and control of a cable-controlled haptic motion simulator

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GA OPTIMIZED FORMATION CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES

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Universal neural-network-based model for estimating the PVT properties of crude oil systems

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Vibration control of a four-bar mechanism with a flexible coupler link

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Robust Tracking Design based on Adaptive Fuzzy Control of Uncertain Nonlinear MIMO Systems with Time Delayed States

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Robust Control of the Elastodynamic Vibrations of a Flexible Rotor System With Discontinuous Friction

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Design of a vision-based human-machine interface device for remote control applications

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Experimental structural damping analysis in high-speed elastic mechanisms

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A Linear Extended State Observer-based Fuzzy Fault tolerant Controller for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Modelling pressure distribution in a rectangular gas bearing using neural networks

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Managing oil drilling efficiency in bend drill pipes-an under actuated system perspective

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Robust control of flexible manipulators via mu-synthesis

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Nonlinear trajectory-tracking control of an autonomous underwater vehicle

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Shock-Based Experimental Investigation of the Linear Particle Chain Impact Damper

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Passive Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Structural Control Using LPC Impact Dampers

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Development of a vision non-contact sensing system for telerobotic applications

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Modelling and robust mu-synthesis control of an intelligent self balancing two-wheel vehicle

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Application of parameter estimation techniques to analyze the kinetics of liquid crystalline copolyesters

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Design, Construction, and Testing of an Autonomous External Pipeline Inspection Robot

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Advances in Land and Sea Autonomous Vehicles

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Full Scale, High Temperature and High Pressure Industry Test-bed for Increased Horizontal and Vertical Drilling Efficiency and Reliability

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Texas A&M University; Qatar Campus; 4252 TAMUQ

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Tingey, Dustin John (2015-08). Design, Fabrication and Preliminary Testing of Experimental Rock Drilling Rig. Master's Thesis.

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Wilson, Joshua Kyle (2013-04). Design and Analysis of a Test Rig for Modeling the Bit/Formation Interface in Petroleum Drilling Applications. Master's Thesis.